LLStylish and RiotBlaustoise discussing Zed

TALKING ABOUT ZED & LEAGUE WITH RIOT BALANCE TEAM [FT. RIOT BLAUSTOISE]

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After LLStylish, Laceration, and Faker, Riot is also saying that zed is weak.
In this video, LLStylish shows that zed has the least damage in an all-in at level 3 between Kassadin and Akali although Zed should counter Kassadin.
Secondly Stylish tells RiotBlaustoise Zed&#039;s W cooldown issue, namely Zed&#039;s W is his only trade (since 1 shuriken doesn&#039;t count as a trade because of how little damage it does), escape and wave clear ability but it is on a 22 seconds cd, whereas Akali&#039;s W has 21 seconds cooldown, Leblanc&#039;s W has 18 seconds cd and these abilities aren&#039;t as important for these champion as Zed&#039;s W is for him.
Another issue is his and his opponents&#039; itemization options. Zed&#039;s only good build is {{item:3147}} {{item:3142}} {{item:3036}}. The problem here is, Black Cleaver&#039;s smaller items are useless so you are really weak until you complete it and Black Cleaver has a stacking armor penetration but as Zed, if you don&#039;t deal enough damage with your W+E+2Q combo you won&#039;t kill him. So you can&#039;t use Black Cleaver that good. Other option would be transcendence with 30% cdr but then you can&#039;t take triumph which is really good on zed and you will have 30% cdr unless you don&#039;t buy a 10%cdr item which isn&#039;t optimal in most cases. Problem with the zed&#039;s opponents itemization is if they are AP they can buy seeker&#039;s armguard which is 45 armor with full stacks, (stopwatch which counters zed&#039;s all kit) and then upgrade it to Zhonya&#039;s for a really low price. That will reduce Zed&#039;s damage output significantly even though he is 1 level higher than this ap champion. If this AP champion also takes 10 armor runes, it is really hard for Zed to do anything.
LLStylish talks about the pre-season article that riot wrote, saying that assassins are hard to balance for example if Rengar gets fed he can one-shot anyone and carry the game, but if he falls behind he will be useless. LLStylish&#039;s asks if a Jax gets really fed, can he not do those things and carry the game as well? Except he wouldn&#039;t be useless if he falls behind since he has his stun and scaling. Assassins, who don&#039;t usually have any crowd control ability, can&#039;t be useful like Jax if they fall behind. The other difference is that bruisers have a lot more items to pick from, that are way more gold efficient than assassin&#039;s (mentioned in the video) but Zed, for example, can only buy the items I mentioned above.
The last point I want to make is Zed&#039;s early, mid and late game. Since Zed is an assassin you would expect him to have average early, good mid and bad late game win rate. According to champion.gg Zed has a:
50% win rate in 0-20 minutes
45,67% wr in 20-25 minutes
47,66% wr in 25-30 minutes
49,43% wr in 30-40 minutes
51,63% wr in 40+
So he has more win rate the longer the game goes on. The reason behind that is like LLStylish said, Zed isn&#039;t a champion before he completes his {{item:3147}} {{item:3142}} {{item:3036}}. I think an assassin who isn&#039;t that strong until 30 minutes is a bit weird.
I think Zed needs a buff, Lacaration has already written what type of buffs zed could get.
https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/HIiJwgkc-possible-ways-to-fix-zed
and this is Faker saying &quot;Zed is crap&quot;.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6HbPBE9Hmk
ps: sorry for my bad English

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